(1.) Roberto Matta Echaurren, "Conversation with Maro Gorky," May 29, 1997, at Maro Gorky's house in Paris, Matthew Spender,
Arshile Gorky, Goats on the Roof: A Life in Letter and Documents (London: Ridinghouse, 2009), p.
Taylor, ed.,
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective (Philadelphia/New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009).
His work resisted definition, often featuring fragmented objects, intense natural colours and dramatic effects, and was influenced by a number of different sources including Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich - Williams worked on his acclaimed Shostakovich series for more than a decade, abstract expressionists such as Jackson Pollock and
Arshile Gorky, and most importantly, the ancient indigenous cultures of Central and South America.
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective," edited by Michael R.
In his autobiography, Hartley notes that Cezanne offered "ideas that were to make the world of painting over again and give modernism its next powerful start," adding that "there is no modern picture that has not somehow or other been built upon these new principles."
Arshile Gorky studied Cezanne closely, and the exhibition reflects his keen engagement with Cezanne's style, especially in the mid to late 1920s.
Arshile Gorky (c.1904-1948) was an Armenian painter, who spent the greater part of his short life in the United States.
Featuring highlights of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the title includes short essays and full-color photographs of pieces from artists such as Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, Bill Viola, Cy Twombly, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, Edward Ruscha, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Kenneth Noland, Louise Nevelson, Piet Mondrian, Agnes Martin, Morris Louis, Sol Le Witt, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd,
Arshile Gorky, Sam Francis, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Diane Arbus, and over 100 others.
Arshile Gorky's The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944) and Jackson Pollock's Convergence (1952) belong to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, where this show travels next year (after appearing at the Saint Louis Art Museum through January 11).
The family settled in Connecticut, and Andre Masson's "automatic" drawings are cited as a seminal influence on Jackson Pollock and
Arshile Gorky, pioneers of abstract expressionism.
A leading authority on the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, including Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline,
Arshile Gorky, and John Graham, Stone opened The Allan Stone Gallery in 1960, showing works by Willem de Kooning, Cesar, Joseph Cornell, and Barnett Newman.